Despite the continued growth of research demonstrating that marriage promotes desistance
from crime, efforts aimed at understanding the mechanisms driving this effect are limited …

The “marriage effect” is one of the most widely studied topics of life course criminology. The
contemporary consensus is that marriage promotes desistance from crime. Most of the 58 …

Walters provides a detailed description of how criminal thinking serves as a vital link
between criminality and crime. Criminality, the propensity to become involved in criminal …

Thoroughly updated in this second edition, Introduction to Gender offers an interdisciplinary
approach to the main themes and debates in gender studies. This comprehensive and …

Although the negative consequences of rising incarceration rates have been well-
established, criminological research has largely neglected to document psychological …

One of the key findings in longitudinal studies of criminal behavior is that antisocial behavior
is fairly stable across the life course (Gottfredson & Hirschi, 1990; Huesmann, Eron …

In prior tests of Beckerian rational choice theory, the notion that individuals are responsive to
the (dis) incentives associated with crime has been supported. Much of this research has …

Large geographic areas should host a greater diversity of crime compared with small
geographic areas. This proposition is reasonable given that larger geographic areas should …

The versatility/specialization debate in criminology has important theoretical, research, and
juvenile/criminal justice ramifications. Although offenders are mostly versatile, there is …

There have been impressive developments in desistance research over the past two
decades, and the body of knowledge in this area of research has grown significantly. In …